Here\'s an update in status to the FreeBSD/mips tree. David O\'Brien has been working through issues one at a time to get things building, primarily getting gcc support merged in. After learning from David that more patches were needed than were in my blog, I spent some time collapsing changes from p4 into the main tree. I\'ve updated my p [...]

Q. I\'ve installed Apache2 and mod_security21 under FreeBSD. Whenever I try to restart apach22 process I get following error:Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_security2.so into server: /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_security2.so How do I fix this problem?

Things have been very busy at the beginning of the school year, so I\'m sorry that I haven\'t been producing as many shows as usual.Registration is open for NYCBSDCon and the list of speakers is available. Are you going?I plan on streaming live during the conference. Do you have any suggestions for live streaming software that is known (Re [...]

The last week or so has show a spike up in FreeBSD embedded platform work. Fixes for mips and powerpc have gone into the tree. Support for a new ARM platform is getting ready to be committed. FreeBSD/mips is almost self-hosting in the svn tree (it has been in the p4 tree for some time). FreeBSD/powerpc and FreeBSD/arm continue to (Read m [...]

I\'ve had several requests for pictures of my son playing in the sandbox. I\'ll go one better and show pictures of my son and I playing in the sandbox. My wife took them just after I filled it with sand.Now, all I have to do is make a lid for the box to keep the local cats and racoons (Read more...)

I debated writing about this. After all, it isn\'t about hacking code. Instead, it is about hacking together a sandbox. It is about making stupid design choices and then over engineering \"solutions\" to those problems. It is a cautionary tale about doing the design right from the start and sometimes \"free\" lumber costs a lot in time an [...]

Tonight was low hanging fruit night. I went through all the PRs that had \"pccard\" or \"cardbus\" and committed the easiest of the fixes. When I did this with USB last year there were maybe 50 of them I committed over the course of a few weeks. For PC Card and CardBus, there were maybe 5 or 6 that I (Read more...)

As you may know, I\'m a user of the p4 side repository to do large code development. With the switch to svn, I wasn\'t sure I\'d still need to do that, so I let my trees there go for a while. It is clear to me that I\'ll need to use p4 a little while longer. So, I cleaned up (Read more...)

I have two cell phones. One of this is my iPhone, made by Apple and running Apple\'s version of FreeBSD. The other is the T-Mobile Dash. I usually use my iPhone, but this weekend I was using the Dash to see how well it worked. It was no better or worse than the iPhone in the one area that I\'d (Read more...)

Hans Petter Selasky submitted a bug against the rather poor error handling of device_get_children a while ago. When the usb4bsd stuff he\'s trying to get into the tree was posted for review, one of the issues was with device_get_children() as it related to device_delete_children().This reminded me of original issue. I\'ve gone through the t [...]

Just wanted to jot out a quick status update on FreeBSD/mips.A few weeks ago, diffs were sent out for review. The 6 patches are now down to three. gcc.diff, binutils.diff and pam.diff remain uncommitted.pam.diff (now pam3.diff) has been receiving feedback from DES and others and is getting close. The first iteration was really far away fro [...]

A few days ago, I wrote about the NSLU kernel config file being committed to FreeBSD\'s svn tree. The default compressed kernel is about 1.6MB, but the size of the partition of the NSLU2\'s flash is 1.25MB, a gap of just under 300kB. With some hacking, I\'ve been able to reduce the size of the kernel to fit.The default (Read more...)

An update on NYCBSDCon 2008 with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer. More information on the conference can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/File Info: 15Min, 7MBOgg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk156/bsdtalk156.ogg

Recently, someone sent me a new ExpressCard. This isn\'t the first ExpressCard that I\'ve had. However, this one is PCIe based. I plugged it in, and it didn\'t work. I had no idea where to begin tracking it down, so I\'ve added some information to pcib device. Now, we report the all the bus numbers that are relevant. Turns out (Read mo [...]

A very preliminary port to the AVR32 has been spotted in the wild. Arnar Mar Sig posted a dmesg of FreeBSD/avr32. You can find his post through this link.For those of you unfamiliar with the AVR32 architecture, it is an architecture that is used primarily in embedded applications. AVR may be initials familiar to many readers as microcontro [...]

People have reacted favorably to a recent commit that I made where I said that my dog chewed up a card so I couldn\'t test it. I thought people would be interested in seeing this card.First, the commit message:Log: Convert to new style PC Card front end driver. Add support for the NEC PC-9801N-J02 and PC-9801N-J02R. I can\'t (Read more. [...]

I have a large collection of PC Cards. Well over 100, maybe over 200 cards. These cards are my test bed for the FreeBSD PC Card (both 16-bit and 32-bit) software that I maintain. Sometimes, I take cards out of the boxes at random at times and try them. Other times, I\'ll take all the cards that are affected by (Read more...)